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Groupe Onglet

Full visit

Discover the Exhibition Greenhouses (1.5 hours)

Do you have 1 to 1½ hours to visit our museum? Without further ado, here’s what we suggest.

If it’s your first trip to the Garden, you simply must visit the Exhibition Greenhouses – especially since in the springtime, the outdoor gardens are not at their peak, so why not use this time to discover the greenhouses?

These 10 greenhouses, which will take you on a tour of the botanical world, are home to a very wide variety of species and cultivars. You’ll see superb flowers in bloom at any time of the year.

Don’t miss the magnificent collection of orchids, the Celestial Garden with several spectacular penjings, and the Tropical Food Plants Greenhouse, which will shed new light on the food you eat. You could spend a whole hour visiting the greenhouses.

Year round, visitors to the greenhouses can admire permanent and various thematic exhibitions showcasing the Botanical Garden's plant collections. In winter, the greenhouses beckon with their warmth and beauty. In summer, the lush tropical vegetation and the exotic penjing, a unique collection of landscapes lovingly fashioned in containers.

Visitors coming through the main entrance to the Botanical Garden, at the corner of Sherbrooke Street and Pie IX Boulevard, are greeted by the sumptuous borders on both sides of the pathways leading to the administration building.

This garden, with its flowerbeds laid out in typical English style, unconstrained by symmetry or straight lines, contains some 600 species and cultivars of irises, including blue flag (Iris versicolor) – Quebec’s floral emblem – and close to 200 species and cultivars of peonies, 300 of daylilies and 100 of lilies.

Discover the amazing diversity of plants that grow on mountains and in boreal regions, and the remarkable ways these hardy yet sensitive denizens have adapted to their surroundings. This garden contains the Botanical Garden's largest plant collection in terms of number of taxa.

Under the foliage of tall trees, shade and semi-shade plants carpet the Shade Garden, whose winding paths invite visitors to linger in this quiet oasis. It offers a chance to discover an amazing variety of plants adapted to these lighting conditions – over 2,500 species and cultivars are represented here.

Up to the mid-20th century, no one thought that rhododendrons could thrive in our harsh climate. It was thanks to horticulturist and rhododendron enthusiast Leslie Hancock (1892-1977) that people began growing them here. He kindly prepared the plans for this garden and donated many specimens.

The Arboretum has about 7,000 specimens of trees and shrubs, in 50 collections. There are species native to Quebec and many cultivars imported from all over the world. All are identified and grouped by family and genus. In this veritable forest in the heart of the city, visitors can see the way nature changes from season to season.